“When ambition outstrips ability, that is always a recipe for disaster.” — Jan Siegel Ambition Copy Share Image
“Advice is a dangerous thing," the Watcher responded. "It should be given only rarely and cautiously, and taken in small doses with… — Jan Siegel Advice Copy Share Image
“Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat… — Jan Siegel History Copy Share Image
“You should never trust anyone completely,” said Ragginbone, smiling a half-smile which snaked up one side of his face. “Unpredictability is a… — Jan Siegel Trust Copy Share Image
“As the chant grew in volume she began to be conscious of the terrible potency of language, the sense that a name… — Jan Siegel Chant Copy Share Image
“I am only mortal, desperate, urgent. Spirits have endless ages in which to do nothing, if they so choose, but humans have… — Jan Siegel Death Copy Share Image
“And she knew she was not sure, she would never be sure, because uncertainty is the essence of the human condition, and… — Jan Siegel Death Copy Share Image
“Everyone has to act out of character sometimes. It's like taking your clothes off: you feel free without your character but very… — Jan Siegel Character Copy Share Image
“I am his lover. They had made no promises, no vows; this was an interlude which might end with the next sunset… — Jan Siegel Last forever Copy Share Image
“I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human… — Jan Siegel Different ways Copy Share Image
“They walked along in silence, that silence just before parting where everything has been left unsaid and it is too late now… — Jan Siegel Silence Copy Share Image
“They slept little that night, making their newfound love like people for whom the world is running out. Fern did not think… — Jan Siegel Love Copy Share Image
“Lougarry was waiting over the brow of the hill, lying so still in the grass that a butterfly had perched within an… — Jan Siegel Butterfly Copy Share Image
“There was a long pause. “you know,” he went on, “I sometimes think mankind is dangerously arrogant. We do a few sums,… — Jan Siegel Glimpse Copy Share Image
“All things resist destruction, according to their capacity. Rocks, pebbles, diamonds. Unity is instinctive to being.” — Jan Siegel Resist Copy Share Image
“Worst of all, she realized, Zohrane was without fear, and fear is the braking system of intelligence.” — Jan Siegel Fear Copy Share Image
“You’d have to trust in Hope,” said Fern. “Is that it?” No,” Ragginbone replied shortly. “Hope needs something tangible to sustain it.… — Jan Siegel Trust Copy Share Image
“I knew you would come,” he said, “in the end. I have been waiting a long, long time.” Time seemed to change… — Jan Siegel Long time Copy Share Image
“Once people needed heaven and hell, Elysium and Faerie. They believed. Belief is the great creative force, the faith that moves mountains.… — Jan Siegel Darkest hour Copy Share Image
“I am not tormented, Fern responded. I am... diminished. I have always believed that your soul grows when you do something that… — Jan Siegel Right thing Copy Share Image
“Of course, it is only a legend. Still, most legends germinate from a seed of truth and feed on the imagination of… — Jan Siegel Demons Copy Share Image
